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ἀράχνη

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Έγ', ὦ ταλαίπωρ', αὐτὸς ὧν χρείᾳ πάρει. Τὰ πολλὰ γάρ τοι ῥήματ' ἢ τέρψαντά τι, ἢ δυσχεράναντ', ἢ κατοικτίσαντά πως, παρέσχε φωνὴν τοῖς ἀφωνήτοις τινά –> Wretched brother, tell him what you need. A multitude of words can be pleasurable, burdensome, or they can arouse pity somehow — they give a kind of voice to the voiceless.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1280-4
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Transliteration A: aráchnē Transliteration B: arachnē Transliteration C: arachni Beta Code: a)ra/xnh

English (LSJ)

ἡ,

   A = ἀράχνης, ἀράχνης ἐν ὑφάσματι A.Ag.1492 (lyr.), cf. AP11.110 (Nicarch.); αἱ λειμώνιαι ἀ. Arist.HA555b7 (elsewh. ἀράχνης, q.v.).    II spider's web, Hp.Cord.10, S.Fr.286, AP11.106 (Lucill.).    III ἀ. λεπταί thin lines, Gal.UP10.12.    IV = σφονδύλιον, Ps.-Dsc.3.76.    V kind of sundial, Vitr.9.8.1.

German (Pape)

[Seite 344] ἡ, 1) Spinne, Aesch. Ag. 1471. 1497 u. Sp., wie Nicarch. 16 (XI, 110). – 2) Spinngewebe, Lucill. 65 (XI, 106) u. öfter bei Sp., so daß der Unterschied der Gramm. ἀράχνη θηλυκῶς τὸ ὕφασμα, ἀράχνης δὲ ἀρσενικῶς τὸ ζωΰφιον nicht bestätigt wird. – 3) ein Seefisch, Diosc.